>>My children, grandsons, daughter-in-law, son-in-law are an amazing source of joy.
>>You have some amazing years ahead of you.
>>Be sure to let yourself enjoy them.
I say you are a good man, BF.
One day we must raise a glass of that good red stuff even if you are a filthy liberal. Actually I think you'll find that almost all kiwis also are liberals, even if some like to be contrarians. ;-)
To that end, invitation for you and your SWMBO to visit, is extended again. My about-to-go-to-university-abroad eldest daughter has claimed the guest annex but my office is a 4-bedroom servants' quarters on the end of our wee place, so there's a berth for you there whenever!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
